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Sarantaporo.Gr Community Wireless Network Building Sarantaporo.gr Community Wireless Network Meet the team. See the impact. Get inspired. Building telecommunications infrastructure as a commons since 2010 2 Meet the team. See the impact. Get inspired. Sarantaporo.gr Community Wireless Network: a short version of our story We came together as a team in the Summer of 2010 to promote our village, Sarantaporo, Elassona municipality. To do this we started creating a website. In the process we realized that the website was unreachable by the people of our village because they did not have Internet access. In the year 2010, an entire region around our village, was living in the shadow of digital isolation. Soon we realized that this shortcoming was not just a "privilege" of our own village. Thousands of remote, rural areas across Europe and the world, half the world's population in fact, remain “unconnected” even as we speak. We are not accustomed to passivity. We do not expect others to solve our problems. From early childhood we were a very creative companionship. Once more, driven by a creative attitude, we set forth to solve the problem of our village. For us it was not a time to despair, but an opportunity to give something back to the place of our childhood. Looking for solutions in other communities, such as the free software realm, the hackerspaces and elsewhere, we learned about community networks. Making the most of freely shared information by online communities and guidance from people with the relevant Building telecommunications infrastructure as a commons 3 expertise we managed to build our own wireless community network, Sarantaporo.gr. We build our first community network in Sarantaporo village, but news traveled at lightning speed in the area. Soon people came from neighboring villages asking our group to do the same at their villages too. During 2010 to 2013 we managed to deploy local community networks in 15 villages in our area. We incorporated in 2013 as a non profit and since then we have been developing our infrastructure, training people in digital literacy and building and nurturing our Sarantaporo.gr local community. 4 Meet the team. See the impact. Get inspired. About Sarantaporo.gr is a community wireless network in the remote, isolated area of Sarantaporo village, central rural Greece. Since 2010 we offer open access internet connectivity to the villages of our region working with the local community to deploy the telecommunications infrastructure, provide digital literacy skills for local inhabitants and nurture and develop our community. Our intervention fills the cracks of a system, in which the market is not interested and the state is unable to ensure connectivity for the citizens of our area. Sarantaporo.gr Community Wireless Network is part of a global trend of community networks, which are expanding both in remote areas and in cities, offering affordable, quality connectivity for those who remain unconnected. Half of the world’s population remains unconnected even today, with no internet access whatsoever. Connectivity, for the other half, is defined and measured as “access to the internet via any type of device at least once in the past three months”! Things are not looking good in the global front of meaningful connectivity and the human right to access the internet, but they are getting better! In the course of years we have witnessed our lives improve in unexpected ways. Connectivity enables the visiting doctors in our villages to prescribe medicines online. Elder people in need of medication thus perceive the wireless devices (routers) that we deploy as the enabler of this medical service. They also get to have their grandchildren visiting for longer periods, since the young ones now can enjoy internet connectivity in the village. Local farmers discover new markets for their products and raw materials, and locals communicate with friends and family abroad, which makes them feel less isolated. Driven by our vision to revitalize our villages and create opportunities for young people to stay or return to their birthplace we are set on a mission to bridge the digital divide. Our Building telecommunications infrastructure as a commons 5 intervention builds on three pillars: deploy the infrastructure, develop digital literacy skills and empower people, and create a strong local community. These pillars are the stepping stones of our roadmap towards meaningful connectivity, where people are not mere “users” or consumers, but rather they are actively engaged, technology literate digital citizens who use technology to improve their lives. 6 Meet the team. See the impact. Get inspired. What fuels us? Our vision A lively, creative, booming and solidary Greek province, which provides its people with opportunities and motivation to stay in their birthplace, and enjoy a flourishing life in a sustainable and environmentally friendly manner Our mission To eradicate the digital divide and provide local communities with equal opportunities for access to the digital economy and citizenship Building telecommunications infrastructure as a commons 7 Impact In the non-profit (as also in business) world, impact is usually measured in numbers: this many users, that download speed, so many Tbytes of data traffic etc. Although we understand the necessity to use such metrics, and in fact we do use them ourselves, we prefer to measure our impact via the anecdote stories of our local community members. Eventually any numeral metric must be translated to insights, to real people’s behavior, to social trends etc. So we thought “Why not listen to their stories? Why not use these story bits to draw the big picture?”. This is how we, in Sarantaporo.gr Community Wireless Network, measure our impact to the local society. So, don’t expect to find many numbers in this section. Be prepared to be inspired, instead! Health – public healthcare is a challenge in these remote areas. The nearest health center is 30km away and the closest hospital 80km, via an uphill and downhill winding road. Thus our local community members do not enjoy the health services available to all urban dwellers. The Sarantaporo.gr Community Network (CN) helps improve things in this domain. Visiting doctors are using it to access the online medicine prescription platform providing patients with the public healthcare service they are entitled to. Taking our intervention one step further, in 2015 we collaborated with the Thessaly University Medical School to run a local survey under the title “Web-based questionnaires: Connecting a tertiary care hospital to remote areas giving the opportunity of awareness and smoking cessation”. This survey enabled the researchers to reach a wide audience from the area and eventually it led to organizing a two-day free medical examination for anyone who wished to be examined at a mobile healthcare unit. Currently we are further examining ways to create even more services for our communities in the field of remote healthcare and active health aging. • Digital medicine prescription • Health-related questionnaire research • Active health aging Social cohesion – our villages are aging. For the past 30 years an ongoing population bleeding has resulted in the aging of the remaining population, since young people either move to cities or migrate abroad in search of a better life. Those staying behind crave to see their children and grandchildren. The most obvious impact of the Sarantaporo.gr CN, the one we expected to see, was the ability for the locals to learn how to use teleconferencing to keep in touch with relatives who live in the city or abroad. “I used to see my grandchildren once every two years, when they came to visit from the States. Now we drink together our morning coffee via Skype, says one “giagia” (granny) from one of the villages. The impact we hadn’t anticipated, though, is stronger. By making internet connectivity openly 8 Meet the team. See the impact. Get inspired. available to everyone, grandchildren from the cities were not reluctant to visit their grandparents in the village anymore. Their parents could even do remote working for a few days. This led to relatives visiting more often and for longer periods. It is also the primary reason why the majority of our community network’s members, the ones deploying the infrastructure, are the elder people: they are offering their grandchildren what they need, so that they are willing to visit them. Many, perhaps the majority, of the crops and animal workers in the region are immigrants, mostly from neighboring Balkan countries. Connectivity for them means to be able to daily keep in touch with their families back home. So profound is the impact of this simple and available to most of us service that one can tell who is connected and who is not just from looking at their expressions. In a sense, our community network overlays the human emigration and immigration flows with a digital pathway where data emigrate and immigrate, travelling from all the places around the world. • Local elders connect with their emigrant family members • Immigrant workers connect with their families back home Local economy – agriculture and breeding are the pillars of the local economy. Small family businesses pass from parents to offsprings who are always looking for opportunities to improve their work, taking advantage of any advancement in their field. Lack of internet connectivity used to confine professionals to local markets for raw materials or machinery spare parts or when looking for customers to sell their produce. Today they use Building telecommunications infrastructure as a commons 9 Sarantaporo.gr CN to discover customers and resources online, to do their tax declarations and e-banking, or use webcams to monitor their farms remotely. The community network further provides an infrastructure which can be used for Internet of Things applications and services.
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